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On Wednesday afternoon Apple invited several journalists, including one from Macworld, to its Cupertino campus on Friday for a “press conference about iPhone 4.” Presumably the company will use the event to publicly address all the controversy swirling around this product, most notably reports of antenna interference issues.
Discussion of iPhone 4 reception issues kicked into [...]

Android is gaining on all the major smartphone platforms in the U.S., though it was only the fourth-most-used mobile operating system in May, market data firm comScore reported on Thursday.
The market share of Google’s open-source OS grew to 13 percent of all U.S. smartphone users in May, from just 9 percent in February, according to [...]

Google’s Android platform, like the Apple iPhone before it, has been a hit with consumers but has only been recently gotten serious about adding enterprise features.
The official launch this week of the Android 2.2 (a.k.a., “Froyo”) platform has been Google’s most significant step toward making Android enterprise-friendly yet, however.
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Rhomobile is shipping on Tuesday version 2.0 of its Rhodes framework for developing native smartphone applications, which extends Apple iPhone native mapping capabilities to other devices.
Rhodes 2.0 also offers accommodations for back-end applications via a metadata  framework. Rhomobile also is offering free licensing. But a previously planned capability for bidirectional streaming of multimedia content has [...]

As part of Monday’s iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical.
Apple released iOS 4 for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, and the second- and third-generation iPod Touch on Monday shortly after 1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT.
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Symantec’s Norton division today launched its “Norton Everywhere” initiative aimed at bringing security protections and cloud-storage access to the Google Android and Apple iPhone smartphones. The announcement coincides with the launch of a new mobile-focused Website.
First up is a free app for Android and iPhone, called Norton Connect, that will enable access to data [...]

A popular Website that focuses on consumer electronics claims to have gotten a legitimate prototype of the next Apple iPhone, which was said to be found in a California bar.
Enthusiast site Gizmodo got hold of the smartphone, disassembled the device, and published a detailed blog entry saying it is “the real thing.” The unit was [...]

The launch of the Apple iPad — which begins shipping this week — has sparked a debate over the necessity and value of Adobe Flash. The lack of Flash support has been attacked as a weakness of Apple’s tablet device; while others claim dependence on a proprietary technology like Flash is a weakness of the [...]

Security company 3Com TippingPoint has jacked up to $100,000 the prize money on offer to anyone able to hack a range of browsers and mobile devices at the forthcoming CanSecWest security conference.
Running for the fourth year at the event, $40,000 of the Pwn2Own contest pot will be on offer to entrants that successfully exploit security [...]

Microsoft at its Mix10 conference on Monday showed off application capabilities for its Windows Phone 7 Series platform and offered a release candidate for its upcoming Silverlight 4 rich Internet application plug-in technology.
Windows Phone 7 Series leverages Silverlight and the XNA gaming platform for application development. Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Blend are positioned, respectively, [...]